Well, not really, but I do have an opportunity for one lucky winner to get lots of other free stuff. (Interesting sidenote: the world can’t seem to make up its mind about swag and schwag, except that the latter seems to be the prefered stoner term and the former actually shows up in a real […]
Now that you’ve learned all about RSS, here’s a list of 15 things RSS can do for you [via LiB]. Also, I just discovered that you can get the Dominican calendar as an RSS feed. They offer two versions of the feed: one for events by week, and the other for “recently added” events, […]
We have a new Dean. Her name is Susan Roman, and she used to work at ALA. Actually, this is not exactly new news, but it is newer than some of the news on the GSLIS site. As you may remember, gettin a new dean was one of the conditions the program […]
Yes, I have entered the land of meta–blogging about blogging. Or, at least, about some blogging.
If you’re reading this, you have at least some idea of what a blog is. But I’ve noticed in a lot of my classes that when blogs come up there are a fair number of blank […]
A lis•dom reader writes:
So you are a librarian and someone gives you $40,646 dollars. After much celebration you decide to:
a) update your adult reference collection,
b) spend the money on developing your extremely popular movie and motion picture collection or,
c) contract with a security company to install finger print scanners on […]
Everybody who is anybody in the library blogosphere has posted this tidbit sometime in the past week. Those of you who know me to differ at any cost may be stunned by this, but I’m going to go ahead and post it, too. [I got it from The Shifted Librarian, who got it from Caveat […]
I’ve been in lovely Iowa City, Iowa for the past few days, more or less disconnected from the online world, although my hometown is now happily full of wifi hotspots, including a coffee shop and the Iowa City Public Library. (The latter was featured in the last issue of American Libraries for its architecture. […]
The library where I work in Franklin Park, just a hop, skip, and a jump west of River Forest, is hiring another youth services assistant. It’s 19.5 hours a week, $10 an hour–pretty much the same job that I have, except I’m focused more on doing YA programming and you’d be focused more […]
Steven M. Cohen, of the ad-laden but useful Library Stuff, points to a recent post about the importance of public speaking skills for librarians at the elegant (and eloquent) Caveat Lector. I didn’t get to attend the GSLIS shindig that Kate Marek organized for people to show off their work (no link because I can’t […]
So I hope some other people are going to ALA. If you are and you haven’t already seen it, you have to check out the Unofficial ALA Wiki–and better yet, contribute to it!
Also, I forgot to say how to get ahold of me: if you have suggestions for the blog or want to contribute, […]